Christmas fortune-telling: divination for Christmas in the bath

Christmas Eve is not only a holy holiday for Christians, but also a time when famous celebratory entertainments began - folk festivals, performances, carols, magical rituals. In ancient times, it was believed that in the period from 7 to 19 January, otherworldly beings manifest special activity, so divination in the New Year is accurate and truthful. Divination at Christmas in the bathhouse is an old ritual, giving the opportunity to communicate with demonic forces in a bathhouse ("unclean place") and turn to fate.

Rules of New Year's divination in the bath

Before going to the unknown, you need to take off your own cross, rings, chains. On clothes there should not be belts and knots, during a ceremony it is impossible to cross legs and hands. Go to the bath in silence, do not ask anything, do not answer the questions. Interestingly: in pre-revolutionary times, fortune-telling went in one shirt, barefoot, covering the face with a handkerchief so that passers-by did not accidentally recognize it.

Divination in the bath for the future

Go to the bathhouse at 12 noon, sit on the shelf with a bare back, three times to say: "Bath board-floorboard, Pribnaya bath water, Bath ceiling, bath shelf, I'll show you what children give birth, And you show me what you expect." After the spell move back to the oven back, put your hand in the ash-pit, grab ash with stones, how much in your hand fit. Rinse the prey through a sieve and examine how many stones are left. The size of the decisive role does not play, but there is one nuance - small stones predict poor life.

Interpretation:

• one stone in the sieve. To be a man of one age. Even if the girl gets married, quickly divorced or becomes a widow. A short man has been measured for such a person;
• two stones. To be married twice, give birth to two kids. With enemies it will be good, with finances - it is bad. Destiny has a long life. Cold and water should be feared;
• three stones. The husband will walk, the children will be a consolation;
• four stones. Family life will be completely controlled by a brazen and absurd mother-in-law;
• five stones. Carefree, joyful life with a rich and kind husband. Health will be heroic, children - obedient and intelligent;
• six stones. Fate predicts theft or fire, illness, short life;
• seven stones. Bad sign, predicting quiet insanity and death of children;
• eight or more stones. A lot of insults, little joy, vain life, a long century.

Guessing on a broom

To wash in a bath, to leave from it naked, holding a broom in hands. Turn your back on the bath, throw a broom on the roof of the bath through yourself. Where the thick end indicates, in that direction it is necessary to marry. The pen looks down - a caring and agreeable husband will come, looks up - strict and picky. If the handle of the broom looks to the right - a good family life and a rich husband are ahead, to the left - a difficult life, a poor husband.

Fortune-telling on a spouse

The best time to perform a rite is a moonlit night at Christmas Eve. To establish a mirror on the table, in front of it to put the second, smaller, between the mirrors to place two church candles. Important: in the large mirror must reflect the 12 mirrors that form the corridor. To evoke the sweet with the words: "Serve-mummified, come with me to supper." When the betrothed appears, quickly say: "Chur me!". Divination at Christmas in the bath on the mirror is a terrible thing, so you need to maneuver skillfully and cautiously.